page_title: Joseph Hirsch
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Hirsch / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: Drawing; Drawings
context_page_description: Joseph Hirsch was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Social commentary was the backbone of Hirsch's art, especially works depicting civic corruption and racial injustice.
  His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums.
context_section_description: Moonlight (1937), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Depicts a corpse-strewn battlefield by night.
  Two Men (1937), Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
  Hercules Killing the Hydra (ca.1937), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Depicts a policeman beating striking workers with a billy club.
  Street Scene (1938), Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma—Norman. Depicts 4 men huddled together on a steam grate in the snow.
  Portrait of an Old Man (1939), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  Hero (Man with Poppies) (ca.1939-40), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Depicts a uniformed World War I veteran selling Memorial Day poppies on a city sidewalk.
  Air Raid (ca.1940), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
  The Senator (1941), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
  The Prisoner (1942), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
  Lunch Hour (1942), lithograph, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Awarded the 1944 Pennell Purchase Prize, and still in the LOC's permanent collection.
  Portrait of Somerset Maugham (1942). Exhibited at MoMA, 1942. Honorable mention, Art Institute of Chicago, 1942 annual exhibition.
  The Crucifixion (1945), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio
  The Survivor (1945), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
  Winter (1945), Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
  Banquet (1945), lithograph, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  The Lynch Family (1946), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
  The Burden (1947), American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
  The Journey (ca.1948), Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
  Nine Men (1949), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Awarded the 1951 Blair Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago; and the 1951 4th Prize from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  Clown with Mask (1949), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  Patriobats (1949), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  Birthday (1949–50), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  The Widow (1952–53), Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
  The Shower (1953), Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
  The Room (1958), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
  The Naked Man (ca.1959-60), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Depicts a naked draftee carrying his newly-issued uniforms and boots.
  Guerillas (ca.1960), Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Missouri
  Doorway (ca.1961), American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
  Monument (ca.1962), American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
  Interior with Figures (1962), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
  Motorcycles (ca.1963), American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
  Supper (1963–64), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio.
  Broth (ca.1964), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  Deposition (1967), Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  Tuba (1971), National Academy of Design, New York City
  Daniel (Belshazzar's Feast) (ca.1976-77), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
  Father Killer Whale and Daughter (no date),  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
caption: Air Raid (ca.1940), Metropolitan Museum of Art
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